The Nobel Peace Prize Award Ceremony 1999

Oslo, Norway

Médecins Sans Frontières will "remain outspoken, passionate and deeply committed to its core principles," said its president, James Orbinski, in his Nobel Lecture. Other Médecins Sans Frontières representatives underlined this message by wearing T-shirts to bring attention to the victims of the ongoing war in the breakaway Republic of Chechnya in Russia.
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Photo: Knudsens Fotosenter

Denyce Grace, mezzo-soprano, at the Peace Prize Award Ceremony in Oslo City Hall.
Copyright © The Norwegian Nobel Committee 1999
Photo: Knudsens Fotosenter